Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Gilberto Hinojosahttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/gilberto-hinojosa/Stories or blog posts about Gilberto Hinojosa from Politifact.comen-usTue, 02 Sep 2014 06:00:00 -0400Finding the facts about immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico borderhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/sep/02/finding-facts-about-immigrants-crossing-us-mexico-/Hottest topic of summer 2014? Perhaps surprisingly, it wasn&rsquo;t anything solely bubbling out of the state&rsquo;s first incumbent-free race for governor since 1990. Political figures from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to Gov. Rick Perry to Attorney General Greg Abbott (the Republican gubernatorial nominee) to the Democratic congressman from Laredo, Henry Cuellar, and the Democratic state senator from McAllen, Juan &quot;Chuy&quot; Hinojosa, kept the Truth-O-Meter whirring.* To the right we&rsquo;ve stacked a sampling of our efforts to verify claims related to immigrants crossing the Rio Grande and claims connected to Perry&#39;s decision to dispatch National Guard troops near the border. What ... <a href="/texas/article/2014/sep/02/finding-facts-about-immigrants-crossing-us-mexico-/">>>More</a>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/sep/02/finding-facts-about-immigrants-crossing-us-mexico-/Obama, Dewhurst and a climate change musical figured into readers’ favorite April fact checkshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/may/04/obama-dewhurst-and-climate-change-musical-figured-/A flammable David Dewhurst claim by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst topped our online readers&rsquo; favorite fact checks in April. Dewhurst, who faces state Sen. Dan Patrick in a May runoff for the 2014 Republican lieutenant governor nomination, said Patrick changed his name to hide his debts. Pants on Fire, we concluded, noting a time gap between Patrick&rsquo;s financial troubles and his legal name change as well as the absence of other back-up information coming from Dewhurst. A gassy oldie placed second among readers. U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Austin, said last July that President Barack Obama&rsquo;s policies contributed to gas prices ... <a href="/texas/article/2014/may/04/obama-dewhurst-and-climate-change-musical-figured-/">>>More</a>Sun, 04 May 2014 06:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/may/04/obama-dewhurst-and-climate-change-musical-figured-/Texas Truth-O-Meter: Kesha Rogers is a Democrathttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/mar/28/texas-truth-o-meter-kesha-rogers-democrat/Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche Democrat in a runoff for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in Texas, isn&rsquo;t a Democrat, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party maintains. Rogers, who favors the impeachment of President Barack Obama, faces Dallas investor David Alameel in a May 27 runoff for the opportunity to face second-term Sen. John Cornyn in November. Hinojosa said Rogers isn&#39;t a Democrat because she doesn&#39;t reflect genuine party values. Whether Rogers&#39; views align with those of mainstream Democrats is open to discussion. But we found no factual basis for deeming Rogers not a Democrat. Voters in Democratic primaries twice ... <a href="/texas/article/2014/mar/28/texas-truth-o-meter-kesha-rogers-democrat/">>>More</a>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:22:40 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/mar/28/texas-truth-o-meter-kesha-rogers-democrat/UPDATED: Grading Texas claims by, and about, Barack Obamahttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/may/15/grading-texas-claims-and-about-barack-obama/Barack Obama talked up economic development in his Austin-area swing May 9, 2013. As his trip played out, we identified a presidential claim about the significance of the technology sector of Austin&#39;s economy, which we rated Half True (see it to the right). We also posted our close look back at his Half True claim that &quot;we&#39;ve&quot; put more boots near the U.S.-Mexico border than ever and illegal crossings are down nearly 80 percent from a 2000 peak. It&#39;s not uncommon, either, for claims about Obama to draw the Truth-O-Meter. For instance, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently said he&#39;s ... <a href="/texas/article/2013/may/15/grading-texas-claims-and-about-barack-obama/">>>More</a>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:22:42 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/may/15/grading-texas-claims-and-about-barack-obama/Obama, Perry, Hinojosa and jobs, jobs, jobshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/may/09/obama-perry-hinojosa-and-jobs-jobs-jobs/With President Obama stopping in Austin to talk cutting-edge economic issues, Gov. Rick Perry welcomed him by touting the Texas &quot;model,&quot; saying in a newspaper ad that Texas accounted for one third of the nation&rsquo;s net job gains the past 10 years. Meantime, Gilberto Hinojosa, who chairs the Texas Democratic Party, said in an email blast to supporters that job gains during Obama&rsquo;s first term outpaced such gains in the two terms of his GOP predecessor, George W. Bush. We found validity to much of what these Texans said. Paw our detailed checks to the right, along with Perry&rsquo;s ad. <a href="/texas/article/2013/may/09/obama-perry-hinojosa-and-jobs-jobs-jobs/">>>More</a>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:33:06 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/may/09/obama-perry-hinojosa-and-jobs-jobs-jobs/Obama’s record on the Truth-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/jul/17/obamas-record-truth-o-meter/President Barack Obama, who&rsquo;s making a rare swing through Austin, often figures into our fact checks. We&rsquo;ve posted some of our checks relating to Obama to the right, including ridiculous claims about where Obama wasn&#39;t born and that he&#39;s a socialist. Our sampling also includes our looks into statements about Obama by Republicans such as Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz, who faces Dewhurst in a July 31 runoff for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. A note: We don&rsquo;t often get to check claims directly made by the Democratic president -- though there is a stimulus-related ... <a href="/texas/article/2012/jul/17/obamas-record-truth-o-meter/">>>More</a>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:42:27 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/jul/17/obamas-record-truth-o-meter/Gauging Republican beliefs about Obamahttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/may/31/gauging-republican-beliefs-about-obama/We cited eight national polls in finding unsupported a Democrat&rsquo;s claim about Republicans and President Barack Obama. Gilberto Hinojosa, a candidate to chair the Texas Democratic Party, told an Austin group in April 2012: &quot;A large majority of the Republican Party believes that this man is a Muslim and was born in a foreign country, was not born in the United States.&quot; Based on the polls we reviewed, we rated Hinojosa&rsquo;s claim False. On Obama&rsquo;s religion, the biggest percentage of Republicans answering &quot;Muslim&quot; was 46 percent in an August 2010 Time poll. The lowest was 17 percent in a March ... <a href="/texas/article/2012/may/31/gauging-republican-beliefs-about-obama/">>>More</a>Thu, 31 May 2012 10:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/may/31/gauging-republican-beliefs-about-obama/